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    Focus on Curriculum Transformation Through Educator and Student Attitude Development to Digital Competence
    (2019)
    Irēna Žogla
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    Svetlana Ušča
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    Kijaško, Mihails
    Huge quantities of information processed through the use of digital technologies occupy an increasing place in education and trigger a search for understanding of the essence of speedy changes in order to capture the most productive ways of monitoring them. Investigations indicate that the goals of education in general which dominated at the beginning of the 21st century have shifted from an accent on disciplinary knowledge of facts to an in-depth understanding of scientific ideas and concepts and to higher order thinking of educators and students which are integrated with the transformational impact of technologies. Curricula offer students innovative knowledge and tools for deeper understanding and implementing digital technologies, as well as emphasize the development of creativity (Chai, & Kong, 2017). Meanwhile, the educators‘ attitudes to technologies that have become decisive educational tools differ across countries, cultural settings and universities. Even more, educators and students identify differences in their attitudes towards the digital technologies and their usage. Much of the students‘ possible success in digital competence development depends on the educators‘ attitude to the evolving amount of technologies to achieve a deep understanding of its transforming nature and appropriate changes of curricula. An effective usage of technologies for educational purposes, therefore, needs constant investigation to balance out all that constitutes the inseparable parts of education at its tertiary stage and thus keep targeted the transformational process. The present paper uses the data collected by the project „Implementation of Transformative Digital Learning in Doctoral Program of Pedagogical Science in Latvia“ (LZP-2018/2-0180) to trace if there are any significant differences in educators‘ and tertiary students‘ attitudes to digital technologies (Gokhale et al., 2013; Hofstede et al., 2011) and competence development, that might interfere with the transforming nature of technologies and the improvement of the digital competence of students. The paper presents for discussion the possible developments of the didactic principles that form a background for creating a model of educators‘ attitude development in further learning. These can be grouped around the three quality levels of the digital competence, that highlight their essence and transformative character: (a) instrumental competence as an ability of completing one‘s job, (b) mastery level of one‘s competence and (c) educators‘ expert‘s level or even excellence in creative innovations that promote the development of a tertiary institution or tertiary education in general. The foundations of educator attitudes to digital technologies and their usage are discussed, as well as the transformational and transformative character of digital technologies that interfere with educator attitudes, general and unique qualities which a tertiary curriculum aims to nurture and that educator further learning helps to keep balanced. Data analysis and the associated theoretical assumptions present a theoretical and methodological background for further investigation by the above – mentioned projects.
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    REZEKNES AUGSTSKOLA INFORMATION SYSTEM SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SOLUTION
    (2009)
    Kijaško, Mihails
    The goal of this work is to analyze information about main principles of creating information systems using service oriented architecture and create RA integrated information system conceptual model. The proposed system model was developed based on service oriented architecture, with additional description of main principles. Final part contains RA information system service oriented architecture conceptual model with development principles. Using knowledge gathered from analyzes and examinations performed in this work, author gives proposals for integrated information system architecture development principles.